The Illegal Facilitator
IF: Illegal Facilitator, a criminal whose crimes facilitated the crimes of others.
“He’d looked, Milgrim thought, like an ethnic version of a younger Johnny Depp. Brown had once referred to the IF and his family as Cuban-Chinese, but Milgrim would have been unable to make an ethnic identification. Filipino, in a pinch, but that wasn’t it either. And they spoke Russian. Or texted in an approximation of it.” —Spook Country by William Gibson
In Gibson's first novels, his characters surfed cyberspace by jacking-in, literally plugging themselves into the net with a hardwire connected at the back of their necks. With his new novels set in the present, they jack-in using the usual monitor and keyboards and by going to Google and Wikipedia. Still, he introduces concepts like "locative virtual art" that just gives you the same mindfuck you got when you first read about the concept of cyberspace.
So, if the IF was texting in "an approximation of Russian", he could still be Pinoy and was just spelling words in what looked like Russian words. In the great words of Ate V, "You can never can tell."
Jessica Zafra (and her Twisted disciples) provides a working list of novels that have been set in the Philippines or feature Filipino characters:
http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/09/04/unable-to-make-ethnic-identification/
IF: Illegal Facilitator, a criminal whose crimes facilitated the crimes of others.
“He’d looked, Milgrim thought, like an ethnic version of a younger Johnny Depp. Brown had once referred to the IF and his family as Cuban-Chinese, but Milgrim would have been unable to make an ethnic identification. Filipino, in a pinch, but that wasn’t it either. And they spoke Russian. Or texted in an approximation of it.” —Spook Country by William GibsonIn Gibson's first novels, his characters surfed cyberspace by jacking-in, literally plugging themselves into the net with a hardwire connected at the back of their necks. With his new novels set in the present, they jack-in using the usual monitor and keyboards and by going to Google and Wikipedia. Still, he introduces concepts like "locative virtual art" that just gives you the same mindfuck you got when you first read about the concept of cyberspace.
So, if the IF was texting in "an approximation of Russian", he could still be Pinoy and was just spelling words in what looked like Russian words. In the great words of Ate V, "You can never can tell."
Jessica Zafra (and her Twisted disciples) provides a working list of novels that have been set in the Philippines or feature Filipino characters:
http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/09/04/unable-to-make-ethnic-identification/
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